{"id":257834,"date":"2025-11-02T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257834\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:37:10","slug":"blinkova-defeats-tagger-wins-jianxi-title-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257834\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinkova Defeats Tagger, Wins Jianxi Title \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Blinkova has developed a reputation as a polyglot and she didn\u2019t let the Jianxi fans down on Sunday as she addressed them in Chinese. She didn\u2019t let her fans down either, as she powered past 17-year-old Lilli Tagger to claim the Jianxi Open title, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Blinkova delivered in the clutch, winning the final four games of the opener and the final three games of the second set to clinch her title.<\/p>\n<p>The world No.95 saved seven of nine break points, and claimed her first title since 2022 without dropping a single set. She is up to No.63 in the WTA live rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Tagger, this year\u2019s Roland-Garros girls singles champion, is up to a career-high ranking of 155 in the live rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Blinkova has developed a reputation as a polyglot and she didn\u2019t let the Jianxi fans down on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-257834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}